Bojangles

Scratch all that.....the meeting has been postponed.

It's on their website... Kent Royals: 1. Nathan Ablitt, 2. Connor King, 3. Matt Marson (guest), 4. Ben Morley, 5. Rider Replacement, 6. Ashton Vale, 7. Tom Woolley. Oxford teams as follows: Oxford Chargers: 1. Jordan Jenkins, 2. Jacob Clouting, 3. Ryan Kinsley, 4. Jody Scott, 5. Henry Atkins, 6. Luke Killeen, 7. Jason Garrad.

Bluey is good, but Bingo is even better.

I hope you're right, that certainly sounds a bit more optimistic. Just a bit weary of making the trip after the last two meetings.

The weather looking like it might win the re-staging of this tonight as well. Although with the rain due to stop around 5pm (according to Met Office, BBC has it raining a bit longer), wouldn't surprise me if Oxford leave it late before making a decision again.

Based on Leicester's own massive build up to the signing of Max Perry, perhaps Harris has just bought himself a new holiday home or something.

Fair point. Guess he's just thinking he's got no other outlet to air his dirty laundry.

True, not very professional, but it's hardly just a speedway issue. Just look at the Kylian Mbappe saga in what's supposed to the biggest sport in the world, involving two of the biggest clubs in the world and what is arguably the best player in the world. Couldn't keep him off social media a couple of months ago.

He's hardly been a disappointment for Leicester, so he's allowed to have a good old whinge isn't he? God knows enough of us whinge on here!

Nail hit on head!

I presume people probably want to know, as they're wondering if there's a way to keep Woffinden once Holder returns. I know I'd be looking to keep him if he's on a 7.03 average. For instance Woffinden is only 0.79 higher than Pickering (6.24) and they have 0.54 to play with. A bit of jiggling around and it's feasible Holder and Woffinden could be riding in the same team, no?

Nope, not as yet.

A lot could depend on how fit Kerr and Killeen are (think it will only the the second meeting back for both of them). Last visit Jenkins, Heeps, Atkins and Kinsley only managed six points between them, and you’d probably expect Oxford’s bottom four to score more this time around - that said it’s never easy to score points at Poole. Even if it’s not close on the night, should be very competitive for the bonus. Going 49-41.

It’s the nature of the rain offs that’s the problem. It’s well documented that Oxford have a large catchment area made up of Reading and Swindon fans, I myself travel from London for instance - so it’s not just Scunthorpe fans that suffered. The above message is no solution to appease fans that were unhappy about the call offs, listen to them and learn instead. That’s the key to keeping the Oxford success story going - and I hope it happens. The work that was done was commendable, but perhaps a little too foolhardy in the circumstances.

You're missing the one page about Poole (on every thread).

Does anybody on here ever update anything on Wikipedia? I went to do some updates today for the first time in ages, and it looks like everything is being kept well up to date - a couple of usernames appear regularly across UK and international competitions, not to mention individual rider pages. Is there a place Wikipedia users collaborate to get missing results for updates etc.?

Think the SIS contract was signed in June 2021 - long before the stadium itself even reopened.

Yep, every Monday night there is currently an SIS greyhound meeting, so little hope for that to change.

The main problem for me is that the rain had passed by 6pm (ish) and Oxford said the meeting was still on at this stage. With no further rain falling, most fans obviously presumed the track was in a fit state to race and travelled, paid for tickets (at £2 extra), bought programmes etc., etc. Now I've no complaints with Oxford delaying a call off while waiting for the rain to stop and checking out the state of the track, but it was obvious (at 6pm) it wasn't going to happen. That's when the call off should have happened and saved everybody's time and money. No riders even went out on a bike to test it, suggesting the track was a long way from being in a fit state to race. Oxford returning has been a dream for me and I love the club, but there have been some very questionable decisions (especially this season). Will it stop me from going again? No it won't, but there's probably less passionate fans that simply don't feel the same way.

That's not technically true. There are multiple fixtures on a Tuesday and even a couple of a Friday this season. As far as I know, the only race nights that are off limits are the nights that the greyhounds are on.

Meeting abandoned. What a joke!

Yeah Jamie Courtney is going around and scraping it off at the moment.

Meeting delayed until 8pm so they can work on the track.

Coming from Poole fans that are all over this thread for no apparent reason! Don’t see Plymouth fans doing it.

Starting to look like this fixture might go ahead, perhaps? Most of the rain looks like it's passed, and Oxford haven't announced it's been postponed. A lot of standing water about, though.